Seventh Configuration "Departure"Источник: The Lost World (1995)Контексте: A hundred years from now, people will look back on us and laugh. They'll say, 'You know what people used to believe? They believed in photons and electrons. Can you imagine anything so silly?' They'll have a good laugh, because by then there will be newer and better fantasies. And meanwhile, you feel the way the boat moves? That's the sea. That's real. You smell the salt in the air? You feel the sunlight on your skin? That's all real. You see all of us together? That's real. Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.

Apocalypse (1930)Контексте: What man most passionately wants is his living wholeness and his living unison, not his own isolate salvation of his "soul." Man wants his physical fulfillment first and foremost, since now, once and once only, he is in the flesh and potent. For man, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. Whatever the unborn and the dead may know, they cannot know the beauty, the marvel of being alive in the flesh. The dead may look after the afterwards. But the magnificent here and now of life in the flesh is ours, and ours alone, and ours only for a time. We ought to dance with rapture that we should be alive and in the flesh, and part of the living, incarnate cosmos. I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea. My soul knows that I am part of the human race, my soul is an organic part of the great human soul, as my spirit is part of my nation. In my own very self, I am part of my family. There is nothing of me that is alone and absolute except my mind, and we shall find that the mind has no existence by itself, it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.

"Of Love" as translated in The Infinite in Giordano Bruno : With a Translation of His Dialogue, Concerning the Cause, Principle, and One (1978) by Sidney Thomas Greenburg, p. 89Variant translation:Cause, Principle and One, the Sempiterne,On whom all being, motion, life, depend.From whom, in length, breadth, depth, their paths extendAs far as heaven, earth, hell their faces turn :With sense, with mind, with reason, I discernThat not, rule, reckoning, may not comprehendThat power and bulk and multitude which tendBeyond all lower, middle, and superne. <p> Blind error, ruthless time, ungentle doom,Deaf envy, villain madness, zeal unwise,Hard heart, unholy craft, bold deeds begun,Shall never fill for one the air with gloom,Or ever thrust a veil before these eyes,Or ever hide from me my glorious sun.As quoted in "Giordano Bruno" by Thomas Davidson, The Index Vol. VI. No. 36 (4 March 1886), p. 429Cause, Principle, and Unity (1584)Контексте: Cause, Principle, and One eternalFrom whom being, life, and movement are suspended,And which extends itself in length, breadth, and depth,To whatever is in Heaven, on Earth, and Hell;With sense, with reason, with mind, I discern,That there is no act, measure, nor calculation, which can comprehendThat force, that vastness and that number,Which exceeds whatever is inferior, middle, and highest;Blind error, avaricious time, adverse fortune,Deaf envy, vile madness, jealous iniquity,Crude heart, perverse spirit, insane audacity,Will not be sufficient to obscure the air for me,Will not place the veil before my eyes,Will never bring it about that I shall notContemplate my beautiful Sun.